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Eli Whitney
After seeing the slow and hard labor of picking cotton gunmaker named Eli Whitney made a machine in 1793 that would pick out the cotton seeds from the lint and had named this machine the cotton gin. This first invention for agriculture would spark many other inspirations to make machines for different jobs. -
Steam boat
With this invention by Robert Fulton in 1807 the steamboat would need to travel in canals and rivers to make up time for the roads on land being slow and the waterways being faster. With the construction of the Erie canal in 1825, many other canals and man-made rivers made it so that many industries can get their products across America faster. -
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First national road
With more people coming to America and more products needing to be transported they had needed an easier way to get to the west. With the road beginning in Cumberland, Maryland, and planning to end in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was thirty to eighty feet wide and was covered with crushed rock. -
The reaping machine by Cyrus McCormick
Another big help to the agricultural revolution was the invention of the reaping machine to help with cutting grains of wheat by hand. Improving the quality of work and saving valuable time. shortly after this invention was another called the threshing machine to remove the grain from the chaff. This would cause a rise in production resulting in the rise of products making them cost less. -
The textile industry
The textile industry would profit from the rise in materials like cotton making more products widely available and cheaper. And with the invention of the sewing machine in 1846 this had made the process of making cloths go much faster in turn also saving time and making products cost less. -
Oil was discovered
Near Titusville, Pennsylvania, Edwin L. Drake drilled the first oil well, named "Drake's Folly,". First used to make machine parts run smoothly and to light kerosene lamps, oil became a very important part of the United States industry. -
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United states first in the industrial nations of the world.
WIth the growth of railroads, factories, and large lumber mills had led to this advancement, the industry was rapidly replacing agriculture as the most influential business in the United States. -
National industrial output
By 1914, four industries made up over 50 percent of the national industrial output. These industries were food products, textiles, iron and steel, and lumber. The textile industry, employing more workers than any other manufacturing industry